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GitHub founder Tom Preston-Werner resigns after investigation finds errors of judgment but no gender-based harassment — Results of the GitHub Investigation — Last month, a number of allegations were made against GitHub and some of its employees, including one of its co-founders, Tom Preston-Werner.| Tom Preston-Werner: |
Tom Preston-Werner moving on to an immersive computing startup, warns of action against “further false claims” — Farewell GitHub, Hello Immersive Computing — Today is my last day at GitHub. Recent events have given me a lot of time to reflect on what's important to me …
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Apple Interviewing Job Candidates for Mobile Payments Push — Apple has been interviewing senior payments industry executives to push ahead on a plan to build an electronic payments business, according to two people familiar with the process. — The company has been meeting with potential applicants … | Janko Roettgers / Gigaom: |
Netflix to raise prices for new members $1-2 this quarter, existing members will stay at current pricing “for a generous time period” — Netflix will raise streaming prices for new members this quarter — New Netflix subscribers could soon be forced to pay a bit … | Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Netflix Beats Expectations With 4M New Subscribers, Earnings Of 86 Cents Per Share — Netflix today released its first-quarter financial results, with the company beating analyst expectations. For the first three months of the year, the company reported earnings of 86 cents per share on revenues of $1.27 billion.
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Microsoft to complete acquisition of Nokia Devices and Services business on Friday — The Nokia Devices and Services acquisition close date — The following post is from Brad Smith, General Counsel & Executive Vice President, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft.
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Apple Aims to Shrink Its Carbon Footprint With New Data Centers — On a stunning cloudless day in the Nevada desert, Lisa Jackson stands with her back to an array of advanced solar cells, peering across a low chain link fence at NV Energy's Fort Churchill Power Generating plant just a few hundred yards away.
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Apple and Google offer promotional boost to games in exchange for exclusivity — Apple, Google Vie to Offer Exclusive Game Apps — The Battle for Mobile Dominance Is Spreading to the Most Lucrative Genre of Apps: Videogames — A long-running battle between Apple Inc. and Google Inc …
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Square discussed possible sale to Google, Apple, and PayPal, recorded loss of $100M in 2013 — Mobile-Payments Startup Square Discusses Possible Sale — Company Faces Wider Loss, Less Cash; Google Considered Potential Acquisition — With losses widening and cash shrinking …
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| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Google is researching ways to make encryption easier to use in Gmail — Above: A photo composition of National Security Agency headquarters in Maryland, U.S. — In response to Edward Snowden's mass surveillance revelations, Google is working to make complex encryption tools, such as PGP, easier to use in Gmail.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
AdRoll Raises $70M Led By Foundation As Ad Tech And Retargeting Hit The Big Time — AdRoll, a pioneer of online advertising retargeting (the technology that pushes you ads for products that you have viewed online previously), is today announcing a major round of funding: $70 million … | Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
Birchbox raises $60M in Series B round, values beauty e-commerce company at $485M — Exclusive: Birchbox banks $60 million — The Series B round values the beauty ecommerce company at $485 million. — FORTUNE — Two years ago, “stuff in a box” was all the rage among startups.
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Beats Music raising another $60-100M; sources estimate subscriber count is “low six figures” — Beats Music's First 100 Days: A Bumpy Start — As Spotify allies with Sprint, labels say Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre's streaming service is off to a slow start.| David Carr / New York Times: |
Aereo Case Will Shape TV's Future — Throughout America's business history, the victories and spoils went to the visionaries who made all manner of things — actual things like cars, pharmaceuticals and entertainment. — But more and more, many of the splashy business victories … | Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog: |
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